Subtile Quotes
7 quotes by 6 authors
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Such philosophy as shall not vanish in the fume of subtile, sublime, or delectable speculation but shall be operative to the endowment and betterment of…
— Francis Bacon
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It is not therefore the business of philosophy, in our present situation in the universe, to attempt to take in at once, in one view,…
— Colin Maclaurin
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The electrical matter consists of particles extremely subtile, since it can permeate common matter, even the densest metals, with such ease and freedom as not…
— Benjamin Franklin
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A full moon is poison to some; they shut it out at every crevice, and do not suffer a ray to cross them; it has…
— Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford
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[1.] And first I suppose that there is diffused through all places an aethereal substance capable of contraction & dilatation, strongly elastick, & in a…
— Isaac Newton
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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
— Francis Bacon
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I belive that there is a subtile magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright. It is not indifferent…
— Henry David Thoreau
Who Wrote These Subtile Quotes
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